Provide Social Security Benefits To Gig Workers: Labour Ministry To Ola, Uber, Zomato
The Labour Ministry held talks with startups such as Ola, Uber, Zomato and Swiggy to provide social safety benefits to gig workers.
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The Labour Ministry held talks with startups such as Ola, Uber, Zomato and Swiggy to provide social safety benefits to gig workers.
Under the new Social Security Code and the Industrial Relation Code, the government proposes to ease the five-year service rule for gratuity payments for fixed-term employees.
Private sector jobs are now more insecure with liberal contractual appointments and hire-and-fire provisions
The draft rules are in favour of employers and deprives workers’collective bargaining ability
. The government has made a strong claim that the recently passed Industrial Relations Code, 2020, Occupational Safety, Health and Working Conditions Code, 2020 and the Code on Social Security, 2020 are pro-worker and will provide statutory protection to unorganised workers. The objective of these new labour codes is to ensure social security, non-hazardous work conditions and to provide minimum wages. However, these codes show anti-labour reforms. According to Section 77(1) of the Industrial Relation Code, 2020, the lay-off, retrenchment and closure in certain establishments shall apply to ...